History of Ajax

The term Ajax was coined by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path in February 2005, when he was presenting the previously unnamed technology to a client.

HistoryofAjax

The
term Ajax was coined by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path in February 2005,
when he was presenting the previously unnamed technology to a client. The
technologies of Ajax(XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, the DOM and XML) have all
existed for many years.

Asynchronous
page updates can be traced back to earlier browsers. In the 1990s, Netscape’s
LiveScript made it possible to include scripts in web pages (e.g., web forms)
that could run on the client. LiveScript evolved into JavaScript. In 1998,
Microsoft intro-duced the XMLHttpRequest
object to create and manage asynchronous requests and responses. Popular
applications like Flickr and Google’s Gmail use the XMLHttpRequest object to update pages dynamically. For example, Flickr
uses the technology for its text editing, tagging and organizational features;
Gmail continuously checks the server for new e-mail; and Google Maps allows you
to drag a map in any direction, downloading the new areas on the map without
reloading the entire page.

The
name Ajax immediately caught on and brought attention to its component
tech-nologies. Ajax has become one of the hottest web-development technologies,
enabling webtop applications to challenge the dominance of established desktop
applications.